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The worst food trends of the noughtieshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/wordofmouth/2009/dec/29/worst-food-trends-decade
Smears of jus, small plates and TV cheffery are all on Simon Majumdar's list. Which food trends have really ticked you off over the last decade?<p>The end of any year is always a time for reflection, a chance to look back at the 12 months which have just passed and how they have changed us as people or a society. </p><p>The end of a decade brings with it even more opportunities for navel gazing, and although it usually takes us longer to digest a whole 10 years' worth of trends and events, it won't be too long before the character of the noughties really becomes clear. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/wordofmouth/2009/dec/29/worst-food-trends-decade">Continue reading...</a>Food & drinkLife and styleTue, 29 Dec 2009 09:40:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/wordofmouth/2009/dec/29/worst-food-trends-decadePhotograph: Gary CaltonSalmon with punctuation at Bacchus. Photograph: Gary CaltonPhotograph: Gary CaltonSalmon with punctuation at Bacchus. Photograph: Gary CaltonSimon Majumdar2009-12-29T09:40:00ZThe best food books of the decadehttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/dec/23/best-food-books-decade
The best books of the noughties, as chosen by Fuchsia Dunlop, Jay Rayner, Rosie Boycott, Tom Parker Bowles, Allegra McEvedy, Matthew Fort and other leading food writers<p>Putting together the picks of the decade in food and drink books has been rather a painful process, not least due to the number of outstanding volumes published in the last gasp of the old century. The trickiest example was Fergus Henderson's Nose to Tail Eating, which was first published in 1999, so in a nearly-cheating move, we allowed our contributors to pick it in its later various guises, all referring back to the influence of the original. Thomas Keller's French Laundry Cookbook and Gary Rhodes' New British Classics, a book on British cooking that many feel hasn't been rivalled since, also first saw the light of day in 1999. </p><p>It was also in the same year that the Naked Chef was published, the first title released by the then fresh-faced Jamie Oliver who has since become <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/22/jamie-oliver-icons-of-the-decade">something of an icon</a> and dominated the bestselling food and drink books list ever since. It's an oft-noted fact that sales of celebrity chef cookbooks and autobiographies have taken off as the publishing industry has slumped, as both slot neatly into the 'book as gift' phenomenon. We have included a few notable examples in the list as they have had undeniable influence, but for the most part we've averted our gaze from the bestsellers and focused more on the books that our contributors - a well read and thoughtful bunch of food lovers - have cherished, and we hope you'll find some titles you were unaware of.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/dec/23/best-food-books-decade">Continue reading...</a>Food & drinkLife and styleBooksWed, 23 Dec 2009 09:30:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/dec/23/best-food-books-decadePhotograph: Graeme RobertsonSome of the books up for consideration. Photograph: Graeme RobertsonPhotograph: Graeme RobertsonSome of the books up for consideration. Photograph: Graeme RobertsonSusan Smillie2009-12-23T09:30:00ZChewing over the noughtieshttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/dec/18/10-years-food-drink
Was the first decade of the century a golden era for British food? Fergus Henderson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Michel Roux Jr and other leading chefs, writers and innovators share their highs and lows with Rosie Birkett<p>To say that the first 10 years of this century have been eventful for food is about as obvious as pointing out that Susan Boyle is an unlikely pop princess. This was the decade that cheffing itself went pop: the celebrity chef exploded onto our screens with never before seen vigour; high-end food became really big business and chefs valuable, international exports. Closer to home we embraced British food – from its pig's snouts to its snail porridge - seasonal cooking caught on in a big way; local produce was championed like never before; food blogging took off and underground restaurants and supper clubs popped up here, there and everywhere, with a helping hand from the food <a href="http://twitter.com/guardianfood">Twitterati</a>.</p><p>We watched with growing fatigue as Gordon Ramsay morphed from furrow-browed, occasionally-documented top London chef into a botoxed celebrity whose multi-Michelin starred global restaurant group went from boom to the brink of bust; while 'pukka' Jamie Oliver transformed from a resolutely perky cheeky chappy into a world-weary social interventionist right before our eyes. Love them or hate them, the 'chef as media personality' phenomenon paved the way for an unrelenting food television onslaught, which, as food writer Tim Hayward (for whom food programming was a low point of the decade) succinctly put it "followed the stars and burned out so that now, with a few noble exceptions, it comprises a cooking talent show and the cultural death-zone that is 'Come Dine With Me'."</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/dec/18/10-years-food-drink">Continue reading...</a>Food & drinkLife and styleFergus HendersonHeston BlumenthalFerran AdriàJamie OliverGordon RamsayAngela HartnettMichel Roux JrFri, 18 Dec 2009 12:20:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/dec/18/10-years-food-drinkPhotograph: Jeff Overs/PAJamie Oliver on TV during his Fowl Dinners campaign. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PAPhotograph: Jeff Overs/PAJamie Oliver on TV during his Fowl Dinners campaign. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PARosie Birkett2009-12-18T12:20:00ZThe best food books of 2009https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/dec/18/best-food-books-2009
Not a comprehensive list, more of an entr&eacute;e. Which are your favourite food and drink books of this year, and of the decade?<p>The culinary themes which dominated the food books of 2009 are the common threads of the last few years - obsessions with seasonal, local and home-grown, and the omnivore's perpetual dilemma – how to eat well, cheaply, healthily <em>and</em> ethically. <br><br>Happily, our (hopefully) improved eating habits are being facilitated by some of our best food writers. Nigel Slater reiterated once again that it isn't necessary to make <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/nigel-slater-tender">meat the centre of every meal in Tender</a>. Simon Hopkinson's superbly written and comforting The Vegetarian Option won me over completely from the first page by describing exactly the way I often eat and gives a traditional but perfectly executed take on meatless meals – I particularly liked his method for making vegetable stock. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/dec/18/best-food-books-2009">Continue reading...</a>Food & drinkBooksFri, 18 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/dec/18/best-food-books-2009Catherine Phipps2009-12-18T10:00:00Z